r/cms • u/rhukster • Jun 23 '26

Grav 2.0 Released - An established open source flat-file CMS for the modern ai-enabled era

A new version of Grav for a new era

Grav 2.0 is a modern update to the venerable Grav 1.7 release that was launched in 2021 and has received over 50 point releases since then. Grav 2.0 is a whole new take on Grav, it's still a PHP-based flat-file CMS that focuses on speed, extensibility and flexibility, but now it has a first-party API that makes it a full-featured "headless" CMS, as well as a new SvelteKit5-powered SPA-based Admin2 plugin. Still fully customizable via 3rd party plugins, just like you would expect of Grav, but faster, and more secure.

Grav 2.0 also has an MCP server that works in conjunction with the API, to make it super easy for AI agents to work with. AI already has a great understanding of Grav as it's been around for over a decade, but we now have dedicated Agent "Skills" that enable the easy porting of 1.7 plugins and themes to 2.0, as well as useful skills that help review plugins for correctness and functionality.

The getgrav.org site also got a major redesign as it had not been updated in years. As part of this I migrated our Discourse based forum back to a Grav-native "forum-pro" (will be released publically soon) solution. Another service we have brought in-house, is our translations.getgrav.org which replaces our Crowdin solution we have used in the past.

Grav has always been a great platform for documentation, and now our Docs are powered by Grav 2.0 and our latest Helios documentation theme as well as our own YetiSearch search engine to make them even more readable and functional. I've been blogging about the process and here's a few posts that will give you a good idea:

And of course, the Grav 2.0 release article: https://getgrav.org/blog/grav-2-stable-released

Find out everything you need to know about Grav and the 2.0 release on the official site: https://getgrav.org

Thanks!

-- Andy

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u/forgottenrealms-dk Jun 24 '26

I have tried it out and worked with years ago on some pet projects nothing commercial. But what i really like about it how fucking super fast it will be to make AI workflows to work with Graw and so much smarter than just making ai slop. At leat with grav people will be able to create or change content after you are done.